we've had lines from our libyan government blames foreign forces for their of latest setbacks which they say are giving the opposition a significant lead. the rebels have broken a stalemate and are gaining momentum while the coalition forces push forward a minute fresh air strike. washington tries to distance itself from the libyan crisis but the country's long history of international interference leaves a war weary public fearing another lengthy conflict. painful economic costs see quarter of a million marched through london and protest elsewhere as hard pressed european question and expense in libya campaign spending slashed at home. and in

japan radiation rises in the sea near full pursue much despite efforts to bring the plant under control following the earthquake tragedy over ten thousand are now the dead many more homeless or missing. a warm welcome to the week we hear on our team this sunday it's twelve newman in moscow we're coming to you live and taking a look back at the week's top stories first libyan rebels are advancing west towards the capital tripoli after regaining control of a strategic eastern oil town from program forces meanwhile nato ambassadors are due to meet later on sunday to discuss the transfer of control of the mission in libya from the coalition parties falsely or in the capital with more. in the china which

is one hundred sixty kilometers away from being guards even ghazi of course being the ripple stronghold and we know that the opposition fighters are back in the town and have taken over and they are getting to march towards the town of ego which is another seventy kilometers from waste when we haven't as of yet received any confirmation that the fighters have actually taken over the town and now as you can imagine the mood in delhi is one of some of going should we are hearing some concerns from some of the residents there they say because you heard the fighting over today and also that some of them are distrustful of the rebel fighters themselves there was also fighting in the city of misrata this is the closest city to the capital tripoli in terms of where the rebels and gadhafi soldiers are coming face to face an. hour drive from and they we're actually hearing that the government has the upper hand and that they're being forced minutes and they started shelling the town coalition in strikes on their ostensibly to protect civilians but it took them more than a week for the rebels to actually overcome the lights are on you see the stars come

from home in line and opposition fighters are on international involvement they have called for the international community to conduct more strikes they admit that they want and relatively limited planes that they came up against him and so the question being asked is just how can they make good on the caves to march all the way to tripoli and it begs the question just how far will the western alliance go in terms of providing air cover and protecting the opposition fighters government here in tripoli is actually accused of the western community of taking sides in this fight to quote the government spokesperson said he said that this is immoral it's illegal and it is an action that is not all the wise about the u.n. security council he says that the coalition forces say that they are could take civilians but actually they push in the country to have civil war nature today is expected to take command of the no fly zone they're also meeting to discuss whether or not they will take control of. the whole operation this is being called the no

child plants and we're hearing from officials that they are likely to get a lot to this that we're hearing from the united states as they were just a few more steps in the planning and after their control and command of the whole mission for the eve of hands of major members a sticking point in this is the point that it was in selves all focused on is just what kind of rope. line since the way in terms of protecting civilians on the ground if you have a somalia for example that gadhafi forces are out in the desert where there are no civilians and they taking a stand when they taking a stand there just what kind of vote will nato play in that particular scenario another scenario that's been put forward. planning an advancement over towns that are firmly in good hands towns within the other was fighting before now this is clearly an offensive abhi nature and i'm since going to continue to provide power and coverage as they and bonds waste words more and more to tripoli increasingly anything on the ground in the back you going to have

a stalemate condition that this country is going to be divided and in most importance you know whether you are a good guy he supported or will support or most people actually do not welcome that kind of kind of it's an aria. well former british intelligence officer any marshawn told us that despite the coldness and claim gadhafi is not a target they may be tempted to get rid of him to make their job easier i think they're a tangle as soon as the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back and which way to jump of course there colonel gadhafi had been a historic enemy of the west for many many decades and suddenly he'd been brought back into the international fold and there were lots of nice juicy oil contracts and business contracts flowing out of libya towards places like the u.s. the u.k. france and italy so i think they're very torn for a long time and it's only really over the last weekend that they did a bit of a rush job to take the violence to the next stage and protect the rebels that they had been backing secretly for a couple of decades in the east of libya so i think different aims from different

countries different vested interests within libya of the different countries and also different histories are all playing a part in this in this model and it is interesting as we're looking at the sort of conflicting reports coming out of the u.k. particularly about the endgame where the military chief of defense is saying absolutely not we're not going to tap decapitate the libyan state we're not going to try to assassinate gadhafi and yet the government is trying to sort of hedge its bets on that front i think the temptation is going to get stronger and stronger certainly for the west the u.k. and france to try and get rid of gadhafi in an accident a bomb that goes off in the wrong place or something because of course they've made such a problem for themselves now even if they end up with a stalemate a war of attrition and particularly a partition situation between the east in the west of libya and we have a situation where gadhafi still has power now gadhafi is going to feel very betrayed by his ex best allies in the west of course because it's up to him over the last decade and gadhafi has experience and a track record and also his stated intentions of carrying out terrorist attacks in the future if he stays in power so i think the west really is in

a position where it has to go for the end game of getting rid of gadhafi for regime change but of course that is highly illegal under all sorts of international laws and is specifically excluded from the u.n. resolution. while american bombs pound libya obama says the u.s. should not and cannot intervene every time there's a crisis somewhere in the world even so every american president since ronald reagan who also bombed gadhafi has weighed into at least one military conflict artie's christopher's hour winds up a controversal tramp. it's become an unspoken identity the job description. become president of the united states. declare war my fellow americans my fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty six a familiar attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be

passive he counted wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic today our armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq in what was supposed to be a quick and limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking selected targets some military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war most thought it would end there with president obama running on an anti-war platform he has spent most of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his predecessor until now the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution that demands and to the violence against citizens. it

authorizes the use of force in the timeline of recent history there have been some glaring similarities when it comes to the use of force by u.s. presidents none have been in response to a military attack or even threat of an attack on u.s. soil none have ever been formally declared wars we had to protect thousands of innocent people in kosovo from a melting military offensive we are determined to knock out saddam hussein's nuclear bomb potential we will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities self defense is not only our right it is our duty the definition of duty often changing the result eerily parallel thank you god bless you. god. thank you very much christine for r. t. . well president medvedev says the u.s. backed military intervention is a direct consequence of the violence carried out by libya's leader moammar gadhafi

against his own people but you criticized the airstrikes saying the no fly zone should be used only to protect civilians and restore peace. but everything that's happening in libya is a result of the shameful behavior of its government and the crimes against their own people we shouldn't forget everything else is just a consequence of that we supported one of the un security council resolutions and allowed the other resolution to go through this was done consciously to prevent the escalation of violence but still the events that followed show that any decisions of this kind should be accompanied by thorough consultations as well as remembering that the use of force should be proportionate to what is happening the fact that as a result of these actions of indian targets were damaged and according to unconfirmed reports that innocent people have died shows that states taking part in the military strikes have been achieved and i hope that as a result of coordinated actions by the international community there will be peace on libyan soil and full measures will be taken to prevent the conflict from

spreading into africa and other states. but the president medvedev met the u.s. defense secretary this week here's an rosser to try and muster kremlin support over intervention in libya moscow abstained from voting on the u.n. resolution that led to the no fly zone enforcement robert gates a short president medvedev but major operations in libya what scaled back within a few days it wasn't the only military issue which came up missile defense in europe was discussed but little progress was made moscow wants a joint system to protect the continent but washington insists on a shield of its own which russia says is a threat to its security. correspondent in libya and around the globe are updating our twitter stream stay in touch with what they're witnessing is all for more on our facebook page and you tube channel.

london streets were filled with more than a quarter of a million angry voices on saturday public sector workers staged britain's biggest political demonstration in years over the deep spending cuts which are being rolled out they were there were hundreds of a rats as parts of the rally turned violent the windows of shops and banks were smashed and down with paint demonstrators opposed the government eighty billion pounds spending costs which they say will destroy essential services and jobs but ministers insist they are necessary to reduce britain's huge deficit the u.k.'s outpouring of anger problems a week which saw intense protests in brussels as the e.u.

contemplated bailing out portugal. reports. no more layoffs no to pay cuts no retirement the message from angry demonstrators pushed back with more to come and pepper sprayed by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this where there was made. to be used for social security. to be used for the health not drug the bench sure when you bring you in the tall chose to move to take ground because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no to more spirity measures portugal's prime minister has quit off the poll but voted down a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion euros at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been called. the only option left is

national default to tell it does the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland it hasn't happened in the west since. second world war but the longer you postpone this necessary evil. the more costly it is there's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costing hundreds of millions of euros many a few areas so what they see is an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the chancellor of the exchequer the finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from among the public in britain with skepticism with millions unemployed across europe people losing patience with politicians who seem out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sides on the streets of the e.u. was government built timing leaves growing numbers well to work the big question is

now the right time to spend the money available on wars abroad the new bush or brussels. british euro m.p. nigel farrar says people across the continent have every right to feel angry over cuts while their government squander money abroad we've had british troops on the ground in afghanistan now for over ten years i don't think there's any appetite for us getting involved in foreign wars where we cannot directly see our own national interest being threatened where frankly if we go in to support the rebels we don't even know who they are or what they stand for or what they want i don't think anybody has thought this through and if they are going to put ground troops in that i think they're going to find all the member states involved in this a real strong level of opposition when people say cuts in front line services for whatever reasons when people see their retirement age is going up when people see the taxes both direct and indirect they're paying going up they were right to

question what on earth are we doing getting involved in an open ended commitment in terms of war with libya that could cost us goodness knows what else i do think that to a very close but i also. so you feel as portugal is about to topple over as the next eurozone country writ requiring a bailout that that is actually going to cost each british taxpayer about four hundred pounds and that actually the biggest effect on our pockets this week wasn't the chancellor's budget but it was the fact that the portuguese government fell and they're about to be bailed out so i think people have every reason to be pretty angry that they see their own costs at home going up their services being cut and money being thrown overseas in all sorts of projects that they wouldn't necessarily support. turning to developments in japan now word of the spread of radiation from the focus ema nuclear facility is raising concern among those in the region my levels have been found in the senior by and they're increasing the government's warning people to get out of the area workers trying to restore the cooling

capacity of the plant have been evacuated from reactor number two where the radiation level is ten a million times more than normal three workers have already been exposed to dangerous materials in the continuing battle to avert catastrophe in the wake of the earthquake tragedy which destroyed large parts of the country the official number of those killed by the quake and tsunami stands at over ten thousand with many more homeless or missing my focus ema remains the biggest concern with the ongoing possibility of nuclear meltdown are these ever bennett spoke to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences could be. lease man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki your sherry in milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle you sure you watch these events unfold at fukushima hearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you

are saying that the results of the contamination weren't just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation and i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer the results of a disaster will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of radiation on his two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro nuclear power but still thinks fleeing from fukushima is the wise thing to do so then the i don't think the public all the governments are overreacting in this situation i think people must take all precautionary measures they can to avoid the worst rest of the nygard psyche the stands today had to be built from scratch eleven square kilometers were jews to

dust the cloud of its tragic past still hangs over the city it's a residence though know what it means to suffer and are willing to help those in need members of the international volunteer organization the lions club here collecting for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami everyone's desperate to give with donations already ten times higher than normal. we have a custom something happens in our nation we collect donations and we help each other especially the people and i guess i can be very very sensitive to atomic power so we are very worried about what happened. and we want to help in. every way it sounded like a sack it is a morial so the seventy five thousand died when the atomic bomb was dropped here this one mark that exact moment now the city will forever serve as a reminder of the destructive potential of nuclear power and those here are now

praying that focus. around would in the same way now go psyche's transformation has been remarkable ground zero is unrecognizable the city would escape any radiation from a meltdown of fukushima but there is a nuclear plant close by and the incident has left residents living in fear. of the . people from nagasaki and hiroshima are very sensitive to the incident fukushima we've never experienced such a devastating nuclear accident before and i think everyone is an error free this could happen again i wasn't afraid of nuclear accidents before but now because i can see it's not under control. this memorial represents the water craved by so many after the explosion the basin's tranquility a far cry from the destruction wrought by the tsunami once that has done its damage this place reminds us the ripples from a radioactive disaster extend for generations are the bennetts r.t.

and a sucky. japan's government has criticised the operator of focus enough for its handling of the crisis but some quite officials are under playing the situation and are holding back information about what is happening there. every single case where there have been nuclear accidents in japan in the united states in the soviet union . all the places that have had crises with nuclear power in the initial response has been to lie and cover up the seriousness of the problem so i don't know why this one would be any different and i would put zero stock in what official reports are and how serious it is how much has been released what the dangers are the i.a.e.a. has a long long record of being a basically a tool of the nuclear industry in all the countries that have nuclear power the i.a.e.a. has a major flaw which is that as an international body it basically answers to the

government has been. with hold its first ratings and so it's very politically controlled organisation as. well even though japan claims radiation levels are not harmful companies are taking precautions when it comes to japanese manufactured goods contamination has already been found in some food products spreading ready i swear it is far beyond japan sorts and starches are lister explained leaving people to think twice before buying. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the safety maybe but that doesn't pay to sanction radiation bought in the water at what i'm going to be very wary of that. it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s.

regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare . it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake the tsunami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming a trade pariah more than likely will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and they still are looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their own workers and so an incident like the one unfolding in japan gives them quite a good reason to do something that they may have been looking to do anyway this is bad for trade made worse for the country itself if made in japan comes to mean made a nuclear wasteland to consumers in countries like the u.s. we're here in times square and i wanted to come down here because it is where the

rubber meets the road as far as advertising in this country and you can really see the brands to play a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them were japanese now take a look at this center post of advertising from top to bottom you can see so many c.d.k. toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the u.s. i noticed even our camera in my my clip from my microphone are manufactured by sony and with the nuclear disaster there is no telling what the oil will be on but the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand presence in countries like the u.s. and this data and have the made in japan label that would be concerned about like televisions components that might carry the radio active materials. and japan's economy will feel it for a long time to trade suffers a major blow and this is dragged down already near zero growth rate in japan if it

does that it's going to have bigger effects internal to japan and globally and we don't know exactly what those are but they're potentially quite significant significant because in a global economy which made in japan matters for everyone many of the world's cell phones laptops and cars rely on upon. see computer chips are auto parts from the country stoppages in manufacturing and trade can send shock waves through the system likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r. t. new york. on line or updating your round the clock on what's happening enter hand right now also what are you got going to trace back the events as the earthquake disaster unfolded we're looking into the radiation where you from the focus in the reactors of nuclear experts explain the danger levels to both health and environment. also while mine japan's economy has been crippled by the disaster and will take years to recover but the human cost of the tragedy is much harder to

calculate perhaps reviver stories only too. well look at some of the news making world headlines today there are reports of israeli airstrikes on gaza this morning which have killed two palestinians and wounded another it comes after hamas said it would agree a ceasefire with israel if attacks on gaza stopped last week saw some of the most serious violence in the palestinian territory which the group controls at least ten people including civilians and children died in the next. week of anti-government protest in the syrian border city has developed into a nationwide gun rest with tens of thousands marching across the country and the rest of city crowds calls for president bashar al assad to go and faces the deepest

crisis of his eleven years in power after security forces fired on protesters on friday killing at least twenty three activist the government blames gangs for the bloodshed and the civil. it's. a young man's embattled president is in talks with the opposition for a handover of power after weeks of protests ali abdullah sunday i eventually offered to quit later this year but protesters insist they want him to go now their resolve hardened after around fifty people will stop dead at an answer government protests last week senior military and political figures have also abandoned believe it. we're going to take a short break here on our to recap of our top stories is coming up for you in just a few minutes.

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